Letters: Healthcare solutions

Listening to the procession of Republicans in the last two years is like playing whack-a-mole: As fast as the American public knocks one down, another one pops up. Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and now Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): None has offered solutions to governing. They just obstruct everything.

Someone please ask those in Congress opposed to the president's healthcare law plan to forfeit their platinum-level, government-subsidized health insurance plans. They obviously don't understand the plight of the uninsured. Why do they think they have the right to deny millions of Americans the opportunity to gain health insurance?

As for defending the free market, are they the only ones in Congress who don't understand that the U.S. pays much more per capita in healthcare costs than any of the countries that have universal coverage?